Report: Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists review – It caused fury across Europe. In the UK? Laughter and coughing

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National Theatre, London Tiago Rodrigues’s play has incensed audiences abroad with one character’s hellfire rightwing invective. The report also notes that But its combination of boredom and shocks ultimately feels confusing What does it say about an audience who, while watching a character make a speech that has sparked screeching protests and angry walkouts in its run across Europe, sit politely listening until the end? The booing does come, but only following the actor playing a far-right politician and kidnap victim (Romeu Costa) has finished a half-hour invective that takes in everything from the scourge of minorities to that of elites, homosexuals, and the far-left. It is a masterclass in rightwing rabble-rousing, with its appropriation of the word “freedom”. Yet on press night at its British premiere, all that is summoned in response is nervous laughter, a chorus of coughs and a few loud whistles.

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